| Series |
Harper torchbooks ; TB 2060.
Harper torchbooks ; TB2060. ^A910441
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| Contents |
Middle Ages. Women as singers in Christian antiquity -- Music in an early community of women -- Life at a twelfth-century Benedictine convent -- Hildegard of Bingen: abbess and composer -- Three women troubadours -- Women among the minstrels and as amateur musicians -- Renaissance. The Renaissance lady -- Vocal and instrumental music performance at an Italian convent -- The rise of women as virtuoso singers -- Baroque. Francesca Caccini: singer-composer -- Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre: composer and harpsichordist -- The Venetian conservatories -- Classic period -- Music as an accomplishment -- Marianne von Martinez: composer and singer -- Maria Theresia von Paradis: pianist on tour -- Corona Schröter and Julie Candeille: two composers speak out -- 1820-1920. Clara Schumann: pianist -- Amy Fay: pianist -- Lillian Nordica : operatic soprano -- Margaret Blake-Alverson : contralto -- Sissieretta Jones : soprano -- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel -- Clara Schumann -- Ethel Smyth -- Luise Adolpha Le Beau -- Cosima Wagner -- The female amateur: from accomplishment to achievement -- Women as teachers -- Women as patrons in the club movement -- The Vienna Damen Orchester in New York, 1871 -- Caroline B. Nichols and the Boston Fadette Lady Orchestra -- Camilla Urso on professional equity for women violinists -- Should women perform in the same orchestra with men? -- A classic formulation of women's inferiority / George Upton -- Regarding unequal education in the past / Helen J. Clarke -- Regarding the "great composer" aspect of the question / Mr. Meadows-White -- Women have too well aided men / Amy Fay -- Fighting generalizations about women / Mabel Daniels -- A corollary to the question: sexual aesthetics in music criticism -- 1920-1981. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: patron of chamber music -- Nadia Boulanger: teacher of composers -- Women's symphony orchestras -- American women demand "mixed" orchestras -- Three musicians recall their careers: Antonia Brico, Frederique Petrides, and Jeannette Scheerer -- Marian Anderson: contralto -- "Female pipings in Eden" / Ethel Smyth -- "Why no great women composers?" / Carl E. Seashore -- Ruth Crawford-Seeger -- Elisabeth Lutyens -- Nancy Van de Vate. |
| Abstract |
Gathers firsthand accounts of women composers, conductors, and performers of the past, including Clara Schumann, Marian Anderson, and Lillian Nordica. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338) and index. |
| LCCN | 81048045 |
| ISBN | 0060149922 : |
| ISBN | 0060909323 (pbk.) : |
